Ux designer portfolio

A lot of user experience professionals who are active in our industry today have faced the question “How to build a UX portfolio if I have never worked in UX?” when starting their career. Let’s be honest: it’s a bit unfair. “Portfolio” is a mandatory field in almost every job application form, regardless of the level you’re applying to. But wait. I’m only able to be hired as a UX Designer when I have a certain number of projects on my portfolio. But if I have never worked in UX, how am I supposed to build a portfolio of interesting and relevant UX case studies? You might be thinking: “well, with my school work”. The reality is: not everyone goes through four or five years of design school before trying to find a job. As much as education systems sound great in theory, the reality is way less linear than that. People come to UX from many different places. They are developers, engineers, project managers, game … [Read more...] about How to build a UX portfolio with no work experience

It's time again for more Windows 8 information based on the job resumes and portfolios of employees, as well as job ads placed by Microsoft itself. As I did previously in the last Windows 8 post I wrotelike this, I've linked directly to the source for each item in quotes below. Some of these mentions are here just for the sake of continuity, but there is certainly some good information to be gleaned from what some of these people are saying. I've done all the leg work, so now it's your turn to have a field day analyzing it all and coming to your own conclusions. In no particular order of importance: Windows 8 Member of the Hyper-V test team. Hyper-V is Microsoft's Hypervisor Based Virtualization Platform. It is a component of Windows. Primary duties include ­ 1. Feature testing of Hyper-V SQM components targeted for Windows 8 release using PowerShell, C# and .NET 2. Responsible for the complete test effort for a major new Hyper-V feature in Windows 8, which involves ­ o Test … [Read more...] about Windows 8: More information from employee resumes, portfolios, and job ads

Recently, I spoke with Patrick Tickle, EVP of Products for Planview. Planview is an Austin, Texas-based project-portfolio management (PPM) solution provider. I'll admit I have a soft spot for Austin tech companies, as they are near so many relatives, friends, and the family ranch. I've covered Planview before. It's got some really nice functionality beyond the core PPM space — one notable product is its NPD (New Product Development) solution. Its product line covers IT project/portfolio management, NPD, finance portfolio management, and services management. This call with Patrick was mostly about the new version of its PPM solutions: 11. In our conversation, Patrick identified three trends the company is seeing that are having a big impact on PPM: Rapid uptake of cloud solutions A more BYOD, mobile, etc. enabled executive wanting information anywhere, everywhere, and anytime Solutions that impact the entirety of an enterprise, not just a specific function or division To that … [Read more...] about Planview brings modern UI/UX to Enterprise 11

Hewlett-Packard announced Monday upgrades to its HP-UX operating system and new Itanium-based NonStop servers. Additionally, HP rolled out enhancements to its Integrity-based CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX, designed for cloud and IaaS environments running mission-critical workloads. The upgrades are all part of the tech giant's Project Odyssey, a venture formed two years ago which the company said sets out to redefine the future of mission-critical computing. Among the upgrades to the Unix-based HP-UX 11i v3 operating system is a common theme — reducing downtime. HP said enhancements will enable organizations to upgrade virtualized applications between Integrity i2 and i4 servers with no downtime, reduce reboot times by up to 50 percent with Soft Reboot, and reconfigure virtualized I/O with no system downtime. Meanwhile, the CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX upgrade includes tools to improve efficiency and service level agreement (SLA) performance, such as larger and … [Read more...] about HP upgrades mission-critical service portfolio

Human capital management provider ADP has rolled out a fresh new user experience that it says will become native to its entire product portfolio. ADP says the consumer grade UX is representative of its vision for an intuitive and fully integrated employee and employer experience – one that drives employee engagement and frees HR staff to focus on business priorities. "Our design team invested thousands of hours understanding a demographically diverse population of employees to deliver a best-in-class experience consistent with how employees interact with technology in their personal lives," said Carlos Rodriguez, president and CEO of ADP, in a statement. The UX uses a proprietary and patent-pending ADP Visual Design Language (VDL). Features include an interactive payroll experience to give employees insights into what impacts take-home pay; a retail-like shopping portal for benefit comparison; and instant access to work schedules and clock-in/clock-out functionality. … [Read more...] about ADP rolls out ‘consumer grade’ UX

At Adobe’s annual MAX conference in Los Angeles, the company is announcing several updates to its Creative Cloud platform, including new mobile apps and a tighter integration between its mobile and desktop apps to allow for seamless workflows, regardless of the device. These updates follow those Adobe unveiled only a few months ago, back in June 2015. The first MAX keynote will be held on October 5, where Adobe will introduce these new features and more. You can read more about the details, but here are the highlights of what we will see from Adobe products in the upcoming weeks and months (live stream available here).The two new apps are Photoshop Fix and Capture CC. Photoshop Fix, for iOS, is made retouching and restoring photos, using editing tools like color, paint, adjust, and defocus. For more detailed editing, all the work is synced over Creative Cloud and can be accessed in Photoshop CC on the desktop, via Adobe’s CreativeSync technology. Photoshop Fix (formerly … [Read more...] about Photoshop Fix among new design tools announced at Adobe’s MAX conference

What if Apple announced the Mac’s retirement? A huge swath of the company’s devotees would be furious … but is it truly an impossible scenario?To many, the MacBook has long been the gold standard for luxury laptop computers. But as Apple’s business interests continue to change over time, the importance of the device’s established user base has become less and less relevant to the company.Apple has enjoyed incredible success thanks to the iPhone and several other wildly popular products — and as a result, the company is poised to do whatever is deemed best for its long-term future. Few of its rivals would kill off such a cash cow, but Apple has no fear of making bold moves forward, even when it means leaving some of its fans behind.Competition heats upThere was a time when the MacBook was an easy choice for anyone looking to dodge the complexity of the Windows laptop market. It was a luxurious yet reliable choice for anyone from students to … [Read more...] about Would Apple dare kill the MacBook? Yeah, it might

Roberto Masiero vividly remembers the moment in 2011 when it became clear to him that designing a mobile application was a considerably different effort than designing a desktop application.As head of the innovation labs for ADP, the $10 billion payroll services firm, he managed the engineering team tasked with creating ADP Mobile, the company's version of its human capital management application for mobile devices. [ Also on InfoWorld: Steer clear of these 20 IT gotchas for the sake of your career. | Get sage advice on IT careers and management from Bob Lewis in InfoWorld's Advice Line blog and newsletter. ]"We started out with a list of 100 features that we thought were awesome," Masiero remembers, but his team's enthusiasm ran smack into the collective disdain of the user experience designers they'd brought in from an outside agency, who deemed feature after feature irrelevant for mobile users, arguing that so many options would just confuse them.By the time the designers were … [Read more...] about Tech hotshots: The rise of the UX expert

Wizeline, which makes a software of the same name, just acquired a previously independent subsidiary called Wize Services. The two plan to become a powerhouse of company roadmapping, planning, and vertically integrated software development. SEE: The high (and often hidden) costs of project team dysfunction (TechRepublic)Project management: every company has to tackle it, and for many it's the top of the chain. If you're a business owner or are responsible for strategy you know that project management is just one part of the greater whole that makes your company operate smoothly, which is where software like Wizeline comes in. Wizeline combines PM with portfolio management, strategy planning, data gathering, initiative planning, and roadmapping so that you have a complete top-level picture all in one place. Wizeline is also designed to integrate with software like Salesforce and Atlassian and boasts a flexible API designed to make merging platforms a breeze."When I worked … [Read more...] about Wizeline and Wize Services join forces to help plan and execute your future projects

In today's post, I want to talk about the field of interaction design by looking at a website that highlights new and interesting examples of web design that emphasize motion and interaction. Here is how the Interaction Design Association describes this field:Interaction Design (IxD) defines the structure and behavior of interactive systems. Interaction Designers strive to create meaningful relationships between people and the products and services that they use, from computers to mobile devices to appliances and beyond.Hover States is a website dedicated to showcasing interaction design, and is curated by Chambers Judd, the London-based digital design and development team. Chambers Judd acknowledges that the Hover States blog is a place to curate examples of great sites that include the best examples of movement and interaction, and captures each within an HTML5 video element so you can experience the look and feel without having to leave their site. Watching the looping video is fine … [Read more...] about A showcase of interaction design and movement